Description

Reports results from an air conditioning contractor survey of residential air conditioning sizing methods in Florida. Results indicate that 33% of the respondents use the Manual J procedure, 34.4% use software, 24.2% use square footage, and 8.4% use other estimates. A room-by-room method of sizing is used by 52%. Some 38.5% say they have purposely oversized units, and 63.6% indicated they would use a split central unit smaller than 15,000 Btu/h if available.

KEYWORDS: year 1995, domestic, air conditioning, surveys, sizing, oversizing, calculating, questionnaires, USA

Citation: ASHRAE Trans. 1995, Vol.101, Part 2, Paper number 3893, 149-162, 10 figs., 6 refs.

Product Details

Published:

1995

File Size:

1 file , 1.4 MB

Product Code(s):

D-16895